Afghan Taliban ‘overrun Sangin area’

Latest reports from southern Afghanistan advise that Sangin district in Helmand range is now roughly wholly underneath Taliban control after days of extreme fighting.

The infantry domicile and a categorical supervision building fell to a Taliban on Wednesday, a internal senator said.

The Taliban contend their fighters have seized a whole district.

However, a Afghan counterclaim method pronounced fighting was stability and that reinforcements had been sent.

Sangin saw roughly a entertain of British infantry fatalities during a UK’s fight goal in Afghanistan.

District administrator Haji Suliman Shah told a BBC he had been airlifted from a district HQ to Shorabak bottom – before Camp Bastion – in a provincial collateral Lashkar Gah early on Wednesday, along with 15 bleeding confidence force members.

A few hundred infantry and soldiers have taken retreat during an army fort about 7km (four miles) from Sangin, and are besieged there.

“The Sangin district centres, a infantry HQ, and other establishments were underneath continued attacks of a mujahideen and today… with God’s beauty a district was entirely prisoner by a mujahideen.

“The white dwindle of a Islamic emirate is during full pillar during a district now.”

Haji Daud, a conduct of a Sangin district people’s council, told a BBC that Sangin residents had fled a district to beside areas.

Responding to a counterclaim minister’s claims, he said: “Those whose family – brothers and siblings and relatives – are not fighting on a front, they always contend a conditions is not dangerous in a area…”

“Those who make such comments do not caring to urge Helmand.”

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These Afghan soldiers male a checkpoint on a approach to Sangin

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People from Sangin have fled to beside districts, a internal personality has told a BBC

Pharmacy owners Sarwah Shah, who fled to Lashkar Gah, told a BBC that all of a families vital on his travel in Sangin – around 20 to 30 houses – had fled.

Another proprietor Agha Wali pronounced he had fled Sangin with his children dual days ago. He had had to leave all his security behind, he said.

The Taliban have already seized control of all though dual districts in Helmand.